Professor Kofi Amegah
Associate Professor of Environmental and Nutritional Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Cape Coast
Professor Kofi Amegah is an Associate Professor of Environmental and Nutritional Epidemiology at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana with a strong research portfolio in nutrition and environmental health. He is Head of the Department of Biomedical Sciences and Vice-Dean of the newly established School of Public Health. His research focuses on the interface of nutritional and air pollution exposure effects on maternal, perinatal and cardiovascular health adverse health outcomes using modern and robust epidemiological and statistical methods, and also leveraging emerging data science techniques.
He leads the Ghana Urban Air Quality (GhanaAQ) and Breathe Accra Projects which seeks to bridge the air quality data gaps in Accra and other metropolitan areas of Ghana to create awareness of the air pollution problem for local action, and to conduct epidemiologic research to bridge the evidence gap. He has established a birth cohort in the Cape Coast Metropolitan Area (CAMAC) with the primary aim of unraveling the cellular and molecular mechanisms, and identifying the social and nutritional modifiers of household air pollution health effects.
He is a member of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE) and Nutrition Society UK, and collaborator of the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) Global Burden of Disease (GBD) studies. He participated in the WHO expert meetings of the Global Platform on Air Quality and Health and is a member of the Exposure Working Group of the WHO Global Air Pollution and Health – Technical Advisory Group (GAPH-TAG). He is a renowned expert on air pollution and health in Africa with his views sought by both local and international media outlets on this and related issues, and was profiled in Scientific American October 2023 Edition in an article titled and Changing the Environment". He is a Deputy Editor of the Journal of Health and Pollution, and Associate Editor of Public Health Nutrition.